Chronological Period/1950-1999
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The Blackwater Lightship
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Master and Brooklyn, Colm T?b? weaves together the lives of three generations of estranged women as they reunite to witness and mourn the death of a brother, a son, and a grands… [more below]
- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0743203313
- Language: English
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The Deep End of the Ocean
$16.00 Add to cart“Masterful…A big story about human connection and emotional survival” – Los Angeles Times
The first book ever chosen by Oprah’s Book Club Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim s- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Mitchard, Jacquelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140286276
- Language: English
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The Pump House Gang
$18.00 Add to cartA sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelist
When Tom Wolfe smashed his way onto the literary scene in 1965 with The Kand- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1250891337
- Language: English
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You Belong to Me
$17.99 Add to cart“The mistress of high tension” (The New Yorker) and undisputed Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark brings us another New York Times bestselling novel that USA TODAY calls “her page-turning best” abou… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Mary Higgins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1668026201
- Language: English
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The Falls
$18.00 Add to cartIt is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine’s young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, “the Widow Bride of the Falls,” begins a relentless se
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0061565342
- Language: English
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The Traveling Vampire Show
$14.95 Read moreWhen the one-night-only Traveling Vampire Show arrives in town, promising the only living vampire in captivity, beautiful Valeria, three local teenagers venture where they do not belong, and discover
- Author: Laymon, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: March 31 2014
- ISBN10: 1477837124
- Language: English
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The Weight of Water
$18.99 Add to cart“I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?” The question is posed by Jean, a photographer, who arrives on Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to … [more below]
- Author: Shreve, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0316780375
- Language: English
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The Glory
$28.99 Add to cartLike no other novelist at work today, Herman Wouk has managed to capture the sweep of history in novels rich in character and alive with drama. In “The Hope,” which opens in 1948 and culminates in the… [more below]
- Author: Wouk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0316953199
- Language: English
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Meridian
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner The Color Purple, comes Meridian, “a classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement” (Ms.).
Meridian Hill… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028344
- Language: English
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Fields of Fire
$25.95 Add to cartHailed as the most important novel to emerge from the Vietnam War when first published in 1978, this book launched a spectacular writing career for James Webb that now includes four bestselling novels… [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Webb, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 10 2000
- ISBN10: 1557509638
- Language: English
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A Place of Execution
$28.00 Add to cartA Greek tragedy in modern England, Val McDermid’s A Place of Execution is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes, and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multi-layered
- Author: McDermid, Val
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0312644531
- Language: English
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Into the Wild
$32.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was fou… [more below]
- Author: Krakauer, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 13 1996
- ISBN10: 067942850X
- Language: English
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Starting and Closing
$17.99 Add to cartFrom John Smoltz – one of the best Major League pitchers of the last 25 years, lead baseball analyst of Fox Sports, and all-around stellar guy – comes Starting and Closing, a powerful memoir illustrat
- Author: Smoltz, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062120565
- Language: English
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Caldecott Honor Book)
$25.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
“I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side–the Communist side–of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter- Author: Sís, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374347018
- Language: English
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Kamala Harris
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Kamala Harris, the first woman, first Black person, and first South Asian American to be electe
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #68
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0711265828
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A New History
$19.00 Add to cart“Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written.” —The Boston Globe
“Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject.” —The New York T- Author: Gaddis, John Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038273
- Language: English
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Who Is Bill Gates?
$6.99 Add to cartBill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this Who Was…? biography, children will learn of Gates’ childhood passion … [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 21 2013
- ISBN10: 0448463326
- Language: English
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The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception
$20.00 Add to cartThe Adversary–now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendome).
Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emm- Author: Carrere, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420609
- Language: English
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The Fall of the FBI: How a Once Great Agency Became a Threat to Democracy
$30.00 Read moreAn FBI veteran explains how the Mueller-Comey cabal turned the FBI from a “swear to tell the truth” law-enforcement agency to a politicized intelligence organization.
Americans have lost faith in the- Author: Baker, Thomas J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1637586248
- Language: English
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The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction This “elegant” and “unfailingly empathetic” narrative (The New York Times) follows three ordinary South Africans living through the most e… [more below]
- Author: Fairbanks, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1476725276
- Language: English
